Group of three putti making music
Maker
(artist)
1607-1678
1607-1678
Title
Group of three putti making music
Date of Production
1620 - 1678
Medium
black chalk, pen and grey and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, on a historic support
Dimensions
Height: 14.2 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3192
Mode of Acquisition
Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
De Bruyn, Jean-Pierre and Sandrine Vézilier-Dussart (eds.), Érasme Quellin. Dans le sillage de Rubens, exh. cat., Musée de Flandre, Cassel, 2014
no. 40 in a catalogue raisonné of drawings at the end of the catalogue
no. 39 is erroneously also listed as Witt collection, inv. 3192, but it is actually a drawing in the British Museum, SL,5227.107
Baudouin, F., ‘From Sketch to Sculpture: The working process used by sculptors in the Southern Netherlands during the 17th and 18th centuries’, in 17th and 18th century drawings: the Van Herck Collection, Claire Baisier et al. (eds.), Brussels, 2000, pp. 23-48
p. 35
De Bruyn, Jean-Pierre, ‘Erasmus II Quellinus (1607-1678) als tekenaar,’ Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen, 1986, pp. 213-71
p. 259
fig. 48 ...More
De Bruyn, Jean-Pierre, ‘Erasmus II Quellinus (1607-1678). Leven en werken’, PhD diss., 5 vols., University of Ghent, 1982
no. T11
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 129 ...Less
no. 40 in a catalogue raisonné of drawings at the end of the catalogue
no. 39 is erroneously also listed as Witt collection, inv. 3192, but it is actually a drawing in the British Museum, SL,5227.107
Baudouin, F., ‘From Sketch to Sculpture: The working process used by sculptors in the Southern Netherlands during the 17th and 18th centuries’, in 17th and 18th century drawings: the Van Herck Collection, Claire Baisier et al. (eds.), Brussels, 2000, pp. 23-48
p. 35
De Bruyn, Jean-Pierre, ‘Erasmus II Quellinus (1607-1678) als tekenaar,’ Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen, 1986, pp. 213-71
p. 259
fig. 48 ...More
De Bruyn, Jean-Pierre, ‘Erasmus II Quellinus (1607-1678). Leven en werken’, PhD diss., 5 vols., University of Ghent, 1982
no. T11
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 129 ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Support (historic): upper centre edge, top of a small fleur-de-lis emerging from two petals.
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: and Verso lower left corners, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, cut off: "E. Quellinus". Verso: upper centre, graphite: "P. 46"; lower right, brown ink: "P. Q" or "P. a". Support (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: "46".
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: and Verso lower left corners, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, cut off: "E. Quellinus". Verso: upper centre, graphite: "P. 46"; lower right, brown ink: "P. Q" or "P. a". Support (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: "46".
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